Dong Nai Province has effectively restructured agricultural production to improve crop yield and quality, and farmers' income.
Dong Nai Province has effectively restructured agricultural production to improve crop yield and quality, and farmers' income.
The southeastern province has switched from growing low-value crops into growing high-value ones, and used advanced farming techniques to increase crop yields and quality, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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| Farmer Nguyen Thanh Lieu in Dong Nai Province’s Vinh Cuu District tends his fruit orchard which is well developed and is fertilised with organic fertiliser that he makes from agricultural waste.-VNA/VNS Photo Le Xuan |
It has reduced unproductive farming areas of rice, corn, cashews, black pepper, rubber and coffee and turned them into fruit growing areas.
It has more than 74,700ha of fruit, up 1.8 per cent from the same period last year.
The fruit growing areas feature fruits that have high value and export demand, such as banana and durian.
Banana, durian, mango, grapefruit and rambutan are the province’s key fruits.
Tran Lam Sinh, deputy director of the department, said developing agriculture production to organic standards was one of the province’s four breakthrough missions in 2020-25.
Localities in the province have boosted the application of good agricultural practices (GAP) and organic standards, and linking stakeholders in agricultural production to secure buyers and improve product value.
In Cam My District, Lam San Commune has developed concentrated black pepper growing areas covering a total of 600ha that meet the requirements of export markets in the EU.
Truong Dinh Ba, chairman of the Lam San Commune Farmers Association, said the black pepper was purchased at a price of VND5,000-12,000 a kilogramme higher than black pepper planted under normal methods.
Cam My District is expanding the cultivation of organic black pepper to meet the demand of exporting, according to the chairman.
Farmers in the district have also developed concentrated durian growing areas covering 150ha for exports. They have farm contracts with an export company to secure buyers and a stable price for their durian output.
In the last durian harvest, farmers in the district had a bumper harvest and good selling prices because of high export demand.
The province has 120 farming areas covering a total area of 24,000ha that have been granted production codes for export, according to the department.
The coded farming areas grow mostly rambutan, mango, banana and durian.
(Source:VNS)
